Point taken. However, I absolutely see where the industry was 10 years ago (yes, even 25 years ago), and where it is now. It's a totally different landscape- always will be. The "good ole' days" are just gone, but there is some room for money and quality of life up ahead- question is who and where...........
I'm not buying 500 airframes at ASA, not for a second. You've got to see the forest for the trees though. Even IF we merely doubled in size, and ended up with 220+airframes, we'd be doing ok. Especially since you're either growing or dying in this business. Hey- I'll settle for 30 airplanes......but something tells me it will be north of that, in the long run. Can I prove it- NO. Do I dine with JA and BH with the inside scoop on things from rubbing elbows with the "in the know" crowd- NO! However, I do see a parent company with money, and money equals options. Hey, for all I know, we get hit by an asteroid tomorrow, life ends as we know it, and we don't get a single airplane.........
I guess we'll just have to hunker down and wait, won't we? But look at it this way crj567- you will have nothing to bitch about in the future, come the fall. Either flight hours stay up this fall, which is equivilent to growth and all the money you care to make, or the flying falls off, and you get to stare at the walls with nothing to do in October, just as it's been in the past. Even if we stay busy, it should be more managable if you want time off- more captains hitting the line..................I'm one of them.
